Reengineering and processes

In this survey we look at two classes of reengineering, of software systems and of organizations. The latter is known as business reengineering. The purpose of reengineering is to improve the structure of a software system or organization by use of an engineering approach. Part of the survey is therefore a listing of engineering principles. An important principle is that there be well planned processes | we de ne a process for reengineering. We put particular emphasis on the reengineering of organizations that develop software. Our main purpose is to de ne a business reengineering process that is to introduce the Capability Maturity Model of the Software Engineering Institute into a software organization.